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==Vehicles==
 
==Vehicles==
 
*[[Flintmobile]]
 
*[[Flintmobile]]
*Wilma's car
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*Wilma's compact car <small>(only appearance)</small>
   
 
==Songs==
 
==Songs==

Revision as of 14:43, 13 July 2021

"The Happy Household" is the twenty-third episode of the second season and the fifty-first overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on February 23, 1962.

Synopsis

Wilma gets a job working in an office, when she and Fred argue over the family budget - but she soon gets the opportunity to appear on a television show, The Happy Housewife.

Plot

Fred lives every husband's nightmare: his wife is not at home in the afternoons to cook his supper! In yet another argument about household finances, Fred lambastes Wilma for her spending habits on such frivolous items as clothing, and she retorts that she wants to have pride in her appearance, to be as beautiful as possible for her husband- and that, if necessary, she will find a job to earn her own money. Fred laughs at the idea of Wilma leaving her "cushy" housewife life to trudge and toil as an employee, and he intensifies Wilma's resolve to enter the Stone-Age labor force.

Together with Betty, who also desires her own income, Wilma visits the Bedrock Employment Agency to apply for work. Betty demonstrates her ability to type fast (but with many errors), and she and Wilma are sent to the Bedrock Radio and Television Corporation to audition for what they believe will be file clerk duties, and Wilma is confused but obliges when asked by a typical Hollyrock television producer to sing. Her vocals immediately impress an affluent German (Hanna-Barbera's favorite ethnic group) named Rockenschpeel, sponsor of daytime programming on the largest prehistoric television network, and, without reading the small print, she signs a contract and minutes later learns that she has obligated herself to appear on national television every day as The Happy Housewife for 39 weeks!

Betty is not hired as a typist, and Wilma asks that she leave for Fred on the Flintstone dining room table a frozen dinner and a note saying that Wilma will explain everything- later. Upon her return home from her first day as provider of music, songs, and helpful dinner preparation hints on her two-hour-long show, Wilma faces the wrath of her spouse, whose frozen dinner crumbled to ice crystals in his mouth and who has been growling like a lion since discovering Wilma absent from her daily, dinner-serving position chef Flintstone.

Wilma recounts the full story of her hiring by Rockenschpeel, and Fred storms into the television studio to unsuccessfully demand dissolution of Wilma's contract. Betty agrees to feed to Fred his desired "home-cooked" meals, before Fred's tactless criticisms infuriate her, requiring Fred to patronize Mother's Restaurant- hairy, gravel-voiced Sam Mother proprietor. Mother serves to Fred a hot brontosaurus sandwich (no gravy), the contents of which are like leather, and when Mother activates his television set and Fred hears Wilma singing and demonstrating tantalizing suppers on The Happy Housewife, Fred demolishes Mother's "eatery" and is jailed.

His ordeal comes to an end when a rival television network propositions him to appear opposite The Happy Housewife as Neglected Husband and Rockenschpeel and the executives of the television network that employs Wilma quickly pull the proverbial plug on her television career and off the air.

Characters

Locations

Bedrock

  • Flintstone home
  • Rubble home
  • Bedrock Shopping Center (only appearance)
  • Bedrock Employment Agency (only appearance)
  • Bedrock Radio and Television Corporation
  • Mother's Place (only appearance)

Objects

Food

  • Apples
  • Banana
  • Cheese
  • Cupcake
  • Pear
  • Pie

Meats

  • Frozen Dinner (only appearance)
  • Bronto-Roast
  • Bronto-Sandwich
  • Bronto-Roast Loin
  • Bronto-Fillet Steak New Rock Cut
  • Bronto-Ribs
  • Dodo Bird Fricasse

Animals

  • Brontosaurus (as a Bronto-Roast, a Bronto-Sandwich, a Bronto-Roast Loin, a Bronto-Fillet Steak New Rock Cut and Bronto-Ribs)
  • Dodo Bird (as Dodo Bird Fricasse)

Vehicles

Songs

Media

  • The Happy Housewife (TV show)

Cast

Alan Reed Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl Wilma Flintstone
Employment Agency Lady
Mel Blanc Barney Rubble
Sam Mother
Bea Benaderet Betty Rubble
Woman
Paul Frees Rockenschpeel
Sam Bedrock
TV Announcer
John Stephenson Sam Rockbound
Chef
Agent
B.J. Baker Wilma Flintstone (singing voice)

Notes/Trivia

  • There are three men named Sam in this episode. The first is Sam Mother, the owner of the restaurant, the second is Sam Bedrock, one of the TV show producers and the third is Sam Rockbound.
  • The scene where Wilma bit Fred's finger after he pointed it at her would later be reused in the last episode of the sixth and final season, "The Story of Rocky's Raiders" where her ancestor, Mata Harrock bit Baron Von Rickenrock's finger after he pointed it at her.
  • This was the only time Wilma's compact car was shown.

Errors

  • None known.


Season 2 of The Flintstones
"The Hit Songwriters" • "Droop-Along Flintstone" • "The Missing Bus" • "Alvin Brickrock Presents" • "Fred Flintstone Woos Again" • "The Rock Quarry Story" • "The Soft Touchables" • "Flintstone of Prinstone" • "The Little White Lie" • "Social Climbers" • "The Beauty Contest" • "The Masquerade Ball" • "The Picnic" • "The House Guest" • "The X-Ray Story" • "The Gambler" • "A Star is Almost Born" • "The Entertainer" • "Wilma's Vanishing Money" • "Feudin' and Fussin'" • "Impractical Joker" • "Operation Barney" • "The Happy Household" • "Fred Strikes Out" • "This is Your Lifesaver" • "Trouble-in-Law" • "The Mailman Cometh" • "The Rock Vegas Story" • "Divided We Sail" • "Kleptomaniac Caper" • "Latin Lover" • "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"